This has already been tried by OQO in the early 2000's. Verdict was: it was a nice concept, but ultimately didn't work real well. The OXO ran a full copy of Won

This has already been tried by OQO in the early 2000's. Verdict was: it was a nice concept, but ultimately didn't work real well. The OXO ran a full copy of Wondows, so you theoretically had the same experience with the small built in screen and the full docked mode. Unfortunately, getting things switched from tablet to PC mode didn't seem to work real well. Ultimately, the tablet was too big and the docked PC was underpowered. If you want a dock able experience, I think we'll see something closer to the Linux transformer tablets. It is an ordinary tablet, but when plugged into a dock, the dock has a more powerful processor (and more energy hungry) and takes over. In this mode, the tablet isn't much more than an external hard drive. I think it was Lenovo that made these, but I can't remember.